If you were looking for a yoga retreat while on a tour to Gods own Country Kerala, then Yoga with Haridas located in the Cliff top of the sacred town of Varkala in Thiruvananthapuram district is the ideal place for you. The naturally beautiful setting of Varkala amalgamates with the sensuous and great Yoga techniques of Guru Haridas will give you what you were searching for within your inner body, mind and soul. Registered by Yoga Alliance, Yoga with Haridas offers guests with three distinct styles of Yoga namely detox, hatha, and Sivananda throughout the year except in the month of June.
You will be taught to control your inner soul with the help of varied techniques including meditation, pranayama and yoga nidra. Yoga with Haridas offers retreats and courses and private teacher courses in beginner, intermediate and advance level. Accommodations and fooding are arranged.
Detox Yoga: Detox Yoga is the kind of Yoga which helps us in releasing toxins that have been built by our body. Through various procedures of twisting, folding and inversions, Yoga cleans the toxins and sends more oxygen to our cells and increase circulation to carry nutrients to the cells to eliminate the toxins. Not only the physical toxicity but yoga also removes the mental toxicity.
Hatha Yoga: Hatha yoga is a kind of yoga where one has to focus on mental as well as physical strength as described in the three texts of Hinduism namely 15th Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Shiva Samhita (date unknown) and 11thGheranda Samhita. The entire yoga is based on postures (asanas) and breathing technique (pranayama).
Sivananda Yoga:Sivananda Yoga is a non proprietary form of Hatha yoga which was started by Swami Sivananda. This yoga focuses on protecting the wellness and the health of the practitioner.
Guru Haridas:Known as one of the great Yogic teachers, Guru Haridas was born to a conventional Hindu family of Sanskrit scholars in South India. He was instigated for Yogic practices at a very young age by his erudite grandfather.
Being a graduate level Mechanical engineer, he worked as an engineer for some period of time as he transformed himself into the divine path of Yoga by joining the renowned Sivananda Ashram as an unpaid teacher and spend 3 years in the same organization.
It was in 2007 when he started teaching freely after leaving the Sivananda organization. Today, he is one of the well known Yogic Gurus in entire Kerala and is renowned for his meditative and structure content.
After spending so many years in learning yoga, he masters every individual with great yogic techniques in no matter of time. Have you ever thought about the glaze in the face of some people who always remains happy and never feels sad or tired, may be they don’t but practicing yoga is the best natural remedy to be happy from inside not only from outside.
So, if you want to get invigorated from your inner body, mind and soul then head to Varkala for indulging in some Yoga practice which is sure to bring a smile in your face and also in your life.
